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I buy bella solid white and black from Moda. My LAQ has an account there and sells to us at very reasonable pricing.
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Just Saturday on our public access channel a gal was using a solid color. She marked with chalk which side she wanted to be right sides together.
Originally Posted by KalamaQuilts
(Post 6730543)
I prefer and use many shades of black..I think it makes a quilt a LOT more interesting.
Even if you are using all from the same bolt how will you know the right side from the wrong side? Are you willing to keep track of that, plus that each black component is going up with the straight of grain, or all going sideways with the grain? Because they will show those differences in the finished quilt. sometimes we just have to sit down and sew :) |
The watching the grain thing is something I learned from a friend, Margaret Doucherty (little brown bird)
I asked her why the book instructions had us cutting the background block with bias edges (picture cutting all those 'on point' from the fabric). She said consistent grain line throughout the whole quilt is one of the things the big show judges look at after they get entries narrowed down to just a few. And her border was on grain so the applique blocks needed to be also. Just something to think about if you do head in the direction of big competitions. Tessagin, the chalk line across the fabric is brilliant for both grain and side issues. |
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Many, many, many years ago (I'm old) :o .. I was taught to use chalk or the small slivers of leftover bars of soap to mark the "wrong" side of fabric. As for using several shades of black in a project.. that's not always the look I want.
Example: [ATTACH=CONFIG]476873[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]476874[/ATTACH] I can see using different blacks in a scrapy quilt. Just wasn't the look I was going for in these two. |
Please ask your quiltshop to get you the doubledyed black Kona. It makes a huge difference in the " hand" of the quilt and the saturation of color. I buy this by the bolt as I also love the true black's drama in a quilt.
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Michael Miller black is a great one!
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Try Marshall Drygoods for bolts at great prices.
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I was amazed when I tried to go back and match some "plain old" black to finish something - there is black with blueish tint - another one with a more greenish tint - and so on, it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. :-)
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Originally Posted by Annie Pearl
(Post 6730678)
I lilke the Amish black that Keepsake Quilting sells.
I also also have purchased true black fabric from Keepsake. There have been links in the past for a shop called Yoders and in my part of the country is an Amish name. You might see what they have to offer. |
I guess I must be OCD because it is distracting to me when I see a quilt with different blacks in it that are placed close together.
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